The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-05-13

The Garfield statue adds one more to the
many art works of the national capital.
Washington is already city of statues, and
its public squares and avenues are lined with
the figures of our heroes III bronze and mar
bie.s The Capitol building has busts scattered
about the house and senate halls, and Statuary
hail. which may be called the Westminster
abbey of the Capitol building, has about
score of marble figures. mere is Statue of
Garfield here, which is too large for the room,
and this hall is allotted to the two greatest
men OF each state OF the union, the selection
being made by the various states. Rhode
Island has presented the figures of Nathaniel
Greene and Roger Williams, both in life size,
and both dressed in the costumes of their day.
Greene is attired in the full regimentaIs OF a
major general of the Continental army, and
Williams has on the clothes of early colonial
days. Connecticut honors Roger Sherman
and Jonathan Trum bull, and New York has
two bronze life sized statues. One of these
represents George Clinton, who was general
of the revolutionary army, governor of New
York and vice president of the United States,
and the other is the statue of Robert r. Liv-
ingston, the man who administered the oath
of office to George Washington when he was
first inauSurated, and who consummated the
to the United States.
Beside these bronze statues stand the two
great men of Massachusetts, One is John
Winthrop, who was the first governor. an1
the other Samuel Adams, who was known
over the world as the great Adams before
John Adams or his son, John Quincy, had
become prominent. Vermont's statues are
those of Ethan Allen and Jacob Collaner.
Allen is represented i'll the uniform of a Con-
tinental officer. He is a giant i'll marble, and
he is supposed to stand here as lie stood be-
fore Tconderoga demanding its surrender
Sin the name of the great Jehovah and the
Continental congress- The Pennsylvania
statues are comparatively new ones, and
while one is very good, the other, it seems to
me, is poor. Robert Fulton is represented
as sitting OH a chair looking intently at a
model Of the steamboat. The marble of this
statue glows with life, and you can almost
see the great thoughts forming i'll the mind
of the inventor. The other is that of MuhIen-
berg, the speaker of the first congress. He
is represented in the knee breeches of the
colonial days, and looks as though he were
walking for wager. The face is effeminate
and the attitude awkward. Just beside this
stands the statue of Garfield, and Ohio has
chosen its other hero in the person of Fog
horn" Allen, the uncle of Senator Thurman,
member of the United States senate, and
governor of the state.
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Hiram Powers made fine statue of Ben
Franklin which the government bought in
1862 for $4,000 and this now stands at the
eastern grand staircase of the senate chamber.
At the other side of the building there is
statue of John Hancock. the president OF the
Continental congress, which is also very fine
and at the east of the house there is statue
of jefferson which Powers made in Italy and
for which he also received $4,000.
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The supreme court has busts of its departed
chief Justices on marble brackets around the
walls of its court room, and Chief Justice
Marshall is the only one who has, I think,
been embodied at full length. His statue in
bronze has been erected in front of the Capi-
tol. He is represented in his supreme court
gown seated ON his spine in great bronze
chair and in the act, suppose, of administer
ing justice to the city of Washington, which
is spread out like map before him. This
statue cost more than the busts of all the
other justices combined 1t is very fine, but
its position is not good. The bust of Taney in
the court room is by st. Gauiens. It was
SoI1S tlIlic dltcf II WAS CotupiODcA DCAoAC ~
was permitted to be placed in its present
position, and this was on account of preju-
die existing against Taney arising from his
sympathy with the south during the late war.
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In one of the house corridors there is a
queer bust of an lnaIal Dronze placed ON
the top of a marble PEDESTAL The pedestal is
of box like shape, and the bust Of the In
dian is cut off straight at the chest and set
fiat upon this marble. It looks for all the
world as though the rest Of the bronze Indian
was concealed within the pedestal, and the
statue has come tobe known as @the Indian i'm
the box" In Statuary hall there Is a bust OF
Abraham Lincoln which represents him with
a robe thrown round his shoulders. It is in
marble, and it looks good deal naore like
naked head and shoulders with sheet draped
around them than anything else These are
two of the ridiculous features Of the art OF
the Capitol, and the great building has many
others which are like unto them. The pict-
ures in the rotunda are full of Inconsistencies
Miles Standish, in the Landing Of the PHI
grins,n has foot which belongs to man
who must have been, if nature made him in